Mary Wilkins Freeman 
Jerome, A Poor Man 

Shakespeare and Civil Unrest in Britain and the United States extends the growing body of scholarship on Shakespeare’s appropriation by examining how the plays have been invoked during periods of ext …

Now published in the Bloomsbury Revelations series, this is a classic work on the power and importance of drama by renowned American playwright, screenwriter and essayist David Mamet. In this …

As the bombs fall in Lebanon, a family prepares for their narcoleptic daughter »s wedding feast. There »s a main course that won »t die, a bride who cannot stay awake and the small matter of an …

I am Heathcliff! Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. The Yorkshire moors tell an epic story of love, revenge and redemption. Rescued from the Liverpool docks as a …

An insomniac is watching TV in a language he doesn »t understand; a woman is stood in a garden stretching her arms to the sky. The whole world is asleep and something extraordinary is about to …

Conceptualizing the curse as the representation of a foundational, mythical violence that is embedded within juridical discourse, Shakespeare’s Curse pursues a reading of Richard III, King John, and …

The peak of my virtuosity was in the one- act plays. Some of which are like firecrackers on a rope. Tennessee Williams Tennessee Williams »s lesser-known one-act plays reveal a tantalising and …

An investigation into modes of early modern English literary  »indirection,  » this study could also be considered a detective work on a pseudonym attached to some late sixteenth-century works. In …

Published in 1908, this book considers the work of William Shakespeare. Providing notes and commentaries on some of his poems and plays, as well as context from English history, and analysis from his …